Join us in NYC next week for "Truth Be Told: Trust, Bias, and Climate Reporting," an interactive conversation featuring three exceptional journalists: Ayurella Horn-Muller, @thaliajuarez.bsky.social, and @rachelreports.bsky.social! Tuesday, September 23, 5-7 PM www.eventbrite.com/e/truth-be-t...

“The Trump administration’s shakeup of the CDC has forced Mississippi to stop gathering critical data on women’s experiences before, during and after pregnancy – even as the state recently declared a public health emergency over its surging infant mortality rate.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Washington Post now has no Black Opinion columnists - none - at a time when white nationalism is ascendant in our nation. I am grateful to Karen for the truth and fearlessness her work has always shown. Keep shining that light, my friend.

The EPA wants to kill a long-standing program that requires big industrial facilities to report their GHG emissions. But that could hobble the carbon capture industry for years. Why? Without the program, there’s no way to claim the carbon capture tax credit. heatmap.news/energy/epa-g...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

NEW: After the @northdakotamonitor.com and ProPublica reported on how oil companies take millions in royalties from mineral owners, more than a half-dozen lawmakers are now proposing a committee to study the issue and suggest solutions. “Something has to be done,” one legislator said.

...Owing to global warming since 1850–1900, the median of the heatwaves during 2000–2009 became about 20 times more likely, and about 200 times more likely during 2010–2019. Overall, one-quarter of these events were virtually impossible without climate change. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

According to the report, the falling costs of energy produced by Chinese-made wind and solar have allowed countries like Mexico, Bangladesh and Malaysia to race past the US in recent years in terms of using renewables (rather than fossil fuels) in everyday activities. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/c...

out of curiosity (and if relevant), what questions would you ask your grandparents about their upbringings, history, life experiences, etc if you still had/have the chance to?

Garnet fire burns into grove of giant sequoias; several behemoths are in flames

🚨Hot off the press🔥 LIGHTS OUT How Trump's war on climate science is weakening the US A feature about the White House's "cluster-bomb approach" to dismantling the world's most sophisticated scientific apparatus. By @zhirji.bsky.social @blkahn.bsky.social and me 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Read this op ed from nine former directors of the CDC sounding the alarm on RFK Jr. and how what he's done to the CDC endangers every person in the US.

Ground-breaking, fundamental U.S. climate science by Roger Revelle, Charles David Keeling, Wally Broecker, Susan Solomon and many others helped shape the IPCC's work and helped make it urgent. About 50 U.S. researchers are working on the panel's next round of reports, without federal support.

Israeli strikes on a hospital in southern Gaza killed four journalists Monday, including a freelancer who worked for The Associated Press, according to health officials. apnews.com/article/mide...

Great story that captures the deeper conflict in DC between its limited power and the federal government. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...

Cleaning up rubble left by Israel’s bombardment of Gaza could generate more than 90,000 tonnes of planet-warming pollution – and take as long as four decades to remove and process, a study has found. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Meet @rachelreports.bsky.social, an independent journalist covering climate change and environment, and former climate writer at CNN. She’s one of our fellows for the new MONA program convening next week to explore our intertwined relationships with the oceans! 🌊 web.uri.edu/metcalf/metc...

With the help of Ocean Nexus researchers and the Metcalf team, last week MONA fellows @mjoel17.bsky.social, @rachelreports.bsky.social, and Eva Tesfaye identified new stories to pursue with science translation training and expanded content knowledge on ocean equity! @uprootproject.bsky.social

Interesting context on the burning Waymos! www.theverge.com/google-waymo...

spent the early hours of this morning celebrating the reopening of the Arts of Oceania wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art🖼️🌺

This is a real response from the Trump WH Press Sec: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/c...

Good rundown from @nytimes.com on everything the Trump admin has (un)done on climate. It makes the skin of anyone who believes in climate science crawl. “At this perilous moment, the United States is virtually alone on the world in rejecting climate science.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/c...

“No one is watching, no one will hold them accountable, so they can just do what they want,” said one HUD attorney. “The civil rights laws that people marched for and fought for, ... it’s not happening. And people are really being harmed by it.” By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

Over 20 people have died since severe storms and tornadoes hit Kentucky and Missouri overnight. Meteorologists are beginning to survey the damage.

Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

NOAA is warning of a group that views Doppler Radars as "weather weapons" and poses a potential threat to US weather infrastructure & personnel. www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/w...

“Imagine you haven’t tasted meat, a boiled egg or even an apple in months,” Ahmed Mohsen, 30, a construction worker in Gaza told NYT. Another said, “We eat once a day, at noon, and that’s it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/w...

Sigh. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...

The US urging the World Bank and IMF to end any climate-related work would impact decades long wins on climate finance, loss and damage, etc. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/b...

UHM???

One of the most toxic chemicals recognized by the U.S. EPA is leaking from medical supply warehouses — and regulators aren’t monitoring it. grist.org/health/ethyl...

This greatly affects the resources/sources/data journalists use for our reporting to inform the public, too.

Feeling out of practice. Writing a long feature story for the first time in a long while has me all 😵‍💫😓☕️

my latest newsletter is out. featuring @hannahomestead.bsky.social who joined me on my powerful trip to the west bank www.possibilities.news/tax-day-clim...

my friend Yessenia is stuck in an airport after doing such important work somewhere!!! help an independent journalist out 👇

Part of Trump’s tariffs announcement on Wednesday includes imposing reciprocal tariffs on a small collection of Antarctic islands that are NOT inhabited by humans and have NO exports. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

We know about ‘Cancer Alley’ in Louisiana, but have you heard of ‘Detention Alley’? Important reporting from @oliverlaughland.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In Central Texas, a bitter fight over a $1 billion water project offers a preview of the future for much of the state as decades of rapid growth push past the local limits of its most vital natural resource.

Happy happy birthday to our baby!!!

Scenes around Times Square this evening.

A couple pieces from members of the trial monitoring committee that convened to observe the Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace case. @trialmonitors.bsky.social @paulpaz.bsky.social www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-... www.trialmonitors.org/energy-trans...

This could literally block clean water and wastewater improvements, air quality monitoring, the cleanup of toxic industrial sites, and other parts of the agency’s mission. Historically marginalized communities like Louisiana’s Cancer Alley and other chemical corridors are disproportionately at risk.

The EPA plans to fire as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, ultimately eliminating its scientific research arm. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/c...

Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Arizona) has died "due to complications of his cancer treatments."

EPA is terminating more than two dozen protections against air and water pollution. It would overturn limits on soot from smokestacks that have been linked to respiratory problems in humans and premature deaths as well as restrictions on emissions of mercury, a neurotoxin.

I fear a great many journalists and even environmental orgs did not read the most recent IPCC report past the Summary for Policymakers. Here's why that is a big problem: that part of the report is the only one that is lobbied to hell and back by politicians. Saudi + US pushed CCS hype into it

William D. Ruckelshaus, the first EPA chief and a Republican, said himself after President Nixon created the agency in 1970, the EPA has “no obligation to promote agriculture or commerce; only the critical obligation to protect and enhance the environment.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/c...

The Trump administration is effectively ending three decades of work at the EPA to try to ease the pollution and environmental hazards that disproportionately burden poor and minority communities. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...

“The move, which many domestic steel and aluminum makers support, is expected to raise costs for American manufacturers of cars, tin cans, solar panels and other products, potentially slowing the wider U.S. economy.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

As I sit here covering this Energy Transfer lawsuit against Greenpeace, Pennsylvania is forcing the company to supply bottled water to a community after a pipeline leaked jet fuel for 16 MONTHS before anyone figured it out. www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...